Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.

Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.

Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.

To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.

My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.

What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?

I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.